[kasabali]

How more clearly do you expect it to be communicated?

apt shows the NEWS file during update when there's a change. If it doesn't (ie. user set it up to blindly do the upgrade), you can still check the news file or .debian.changelog.gz file afterwards.

And note that this happened in testing/sid channel, where breakage is supposed to be happen. When this change shipped in the new major Debian stable release in a few years, it'll surely be clearly written in the release notes.

What else do you expect, SMS notification? :P

If a user haven't seen the above he for sure won't see an announcement in a crowded debian-whatever-announce mailing list he isn't subscribed to or an obscure blog post posted somewhere he doesn't follow.

[skjoldr]

I've almost never needed to read those news to keep the system working as I want it to. That's the thing.